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Chris Toepfer balances on a ledge of Muddy Waters’s former home as he paints over a recent board-up he completed on the historic property. | Peter Holderness/Chicago Sun-Times

The non-profit Neighborhood Foundation and its exec director, Chris Toepfer, partners with neighborhood organizations, local artists and local labor to put decorative panels and artwork on shuttered buildings across the city. [Read more: Sun-Times]

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